Car makers count on Trump

The American auto industry is counting on the fact that the new US president will help with their business. Its representatives are counting on easing the burning standards that are due to come into force in 2025.

New United States President Donald Trump has begun his work on controversial decisions that can severely harm the environment. So the American auto industry is counting on the fact that if the president does not care about environmental issues, then the automotive industry can benefit too.

Automobile companies such as Fiat Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota and VW sent a letter to Trump in which he urged him to abolish the new guidelines on combustion standards introduced by the Obama administration. The guidelines designed to protect our planet assume that by 2025 new cars would burn only 4.32 l / 100 km.

Companies like this do not like it very much. They argue that the need to meet them will significantly increase the cost of production of new cars. In their view they also do not fit into public habits, so they have an apocalyptic vision of losing millions ofjobs without explaining why new standards of combustion would lead to such large layoffs.